Clark Abrams is Chief of the Money Laundering and Financial Investigations Unit at the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, where he is responsible for investigating and prosecuting money laundering cases, conducting training, and assisting and advising prosecutors throughout the Office on money laundering investigations and prosecutions. He also sits on the Office’s committee that approves and reviews undercover money laundering operations. Over the past 25 years, he has gained substantial experience, in positions with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, and Special Narcotics Prosecutor, investigating and prosecuting international money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and financial crime. After serving state appellate and federal trial judicial clerkships upon graduation from law school, Mr. Abrams practiced commercial litigation in New York City, before entering public service. He has served on various Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Working Groups, was trained as a Mutual Evaluation Assessor for the 40 + 9 Recommendations, and has spoken both in the United States and abroad on issues relating to financial crime, money laundering, and international cooperation. Mr. Abrams, a graduate of Rutgers College and the University of North Carolina School of Law, is a member of the Compliance Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and co-chair of the Financial Crimes/AML Subcommittee.

Mr. Schulz looks after the FCC Controls framework for the Group including Customer & Transaction Surveillance, Financial Intelligence & Investigations, Sensitive Clients, Metrics, Analytics, Change & Delivery as well as Learning and owns all FCC systems. He is a trained banker by trade and has over 20 years of experience in Financial Services with more than half of his professional work dedicated to Compliance and Financial Crimes prevention for a number of global institutions.

He is a very active member in the Compliance industry, working with groups like the Wolfsberg Group, Egmont Group, Madison Group, Basel Institute on Governance, Insurance Europe, FATF, IACA and the European Commission just to mention some. He has initiated and lead a number of successful collective industry action groups around topics like Trade & Economic Sanctions, AML and FATCA as well as Ethics in Business.

Mr. Schulz is an Advisory Board member of ACAMS. He is a very frequent speaker and chair at Compliance, and Anti-Financial Crime conferences and summits around the world and has co-authored a number of publications in this field.